Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig vr.org. NS
Answer
vr.org. 5 NS cdns1.netactuate.COM.
vr.org. 5 NS cdns3.netactuate.COM.
vr.org. 5 NS cdns.netactuate.COM.
vr.org. 5 NS cdns2.netactuate.COM.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0